A6 — BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2021
SPORTS
Beavers can’t
stop Cal offense
in 39-25 loss
 Oregon State
rallies but blocked
punt proves key
for Golden Bears
By JOSH DUBOW
Associated Press
BERKELEY, Calif. —
After three straight Pac-12
losses to open the season,
California is starting to fi nd
its stride.
Chase Garbers threw one
of his three TD passes one
play after a partially blocked
punt and the Golden Bears
beat Oregon State 39-25
Saturday, Oct. 30.
“We’re certainly improv-
ing,” Cal coach Justin Wilcox
said. “There are guys who
are developing and mak-
ing some big plays in the
game who are coming into
their own a little bit. We are
improving but the margins
are so thin at this level of
football and in our confer-
ence that there are going to
be a handful of critical plays
in the game that you have
to fi nd a way to make and I
thought there were some big
ones today.”
The biggest plays came
in the closing seconds of
the third quarter with Cal
(3-5, 2-3 Pac-12) leading by
seven points.
Chance Nolan couldn’t
connect with Trevon Brad-
ford on a third-down pass
and sent out Luke Loecher
to punt.
Nick Alftin got a piece
of the kick and it went out
of bounds 1 yard past the
line of scrimmage. Garbers
then went deep and con-
nected on a 38-yard TD pass
to Trevon Clark to make it
31-17 on the fi nal play of the
third quarter.
The Beavers (5-3, 3-2)
lost for the second time in
three games and fell a game
behind rival Oregon in the
Pac-12 North.
“There’s nobody feel-
ing sorry for themselves,
because we put ourselves in
this position,” defensive back
Jaydon Grant said. “We’re
the ones who came out and
didn’t execute. We’re the
ones who came out and got
out-physicaled from top to
bottom. We’re the ones who
are accountable for losing
this game — not the coaches,
not the game plan. It’s us.
It’s not being able to execute
for four quarters throughout
the duration of the game. It’s
don’t feel sorry for yourself
and back to work tomorrow.”
Oregon State tried to
mount a comeback, cutting
it to 31-25 on a 46-yard TD
pass from Chance Nolan to
Trevon Bradford followed by
a 2-point conversion.
But the Golden Bears
answered on Garbers’ sec-
ond TD pass of the game to
Christopher Brooks followed
by a 2-point conversion of
their own and held on for
the win.
Garbers also ran for a
score on the opening drive
and threw a 38-yard TD
pass to Brooks earlier in the
third quarter to lead Cal to
their second straight confer-
ence win.
“Tonight we showed out,”
safety Elijah Hicks said. “I’m
proud of the guys... We’re
just hungry for more. We’re
not satisfi ed. We’re not done.
We’re going to keep coming.”
The takeaway
Oregon State: The Bea-
vers were done in by three
turnovers and the partially
blocked punt as they failed
in their fi rst chance to be-
come bowl eligible. They also
struggled to get going on the
ground with B.J. Baylor held
to 42 yards on 13 carries.
Baylor came into the week
sixth in the nation at 118.6
yards rushing per game and
had topped the 100-yard
mark in four straight and
fi ve of the past six games
contests.
California: The Bears
followed up a lopsided win
over Colorado last week
with a more impressive one
in a tougher opponent in the
Beavers. They need to win
three of the fi nal four games
to get bowl eligible.
Fast start
Cal jumped out early
with Marqez Bimage rip-
ping the ball away from B.J.
Baylor for a fumble on the
fi rst play from scrimmage.
That set up a 3-yard TD
run by Garbers that gave
him the most TD runs by a
quarterback in school his-
tory with 10.
Cal has now scored on
the opening drive in six of
eight games this season with
fi ve touchdowns and one
fi eld goal.
Up next
Oregon State visits Colo-
rado on Saturday, Nov. 6.
California visits Arizona
on Saturday, Nov. 6.
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Kelly Oubre Jr. (12) of the Charlotte Hornets is guarded by Nassir Little (9) of the
Portland Trail Blazers during the fourth quarter during their game at Spectrum
Center on Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021, in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Ball, Oubre lead Hornets
past Trail Blazers, 125-113
the stretch to help Charlotte
improve to 5-2.
The Hornets led 89-88
CHARLOTTE, N.C.
entering the fourth quarter
— The Charlotte Hornets
when Oubre took over.
signed free agent Kelly
He provided 10 quick
Oubre Jr. this offseason to
provide energy off the bench points, including two 3s
and a dunk off an offensive
and allow starting forward
rebound. He also helped the
Gordon Hayward to rest a
little more so he can make it Hornets step up their overall
through an 82-game season. defensive effort with a steal
out near the top of the key as
Oubre is working out
just as planned so far for the Charlotte limited the Blazers
to 25 points in the fourth
surging Hornets.
quarter.
LaMelo Ball had 27
Oubre had another 3 with
points, nine rebounds and
2 1/2 minutes to play to stifl e
seven assists and Oubre
one Blazers rally and push
sparked the Hornets by
scoring 13 of his 26 points in the lead back to double digits.
Washington sealed the win
the decisive fourth quarter
in a 125-113 victory over the with a turnaround jumper in
the lane to beat the shot clock
Portland Trail Blazers on
and a block at the other end.
Sunday night, Oct. 31.
“He is a difference maker
“He has been fantastic,”
out there,” Hornets guard
said James Borrego, who
won his 100th game as head Terry Rozier said about Ou-
bre. “He and Miles Bridges
coach of the Hornets. “This
do the same thing. He just
why we brought him here.
We believe in him. We believe turns it up out there.”
The Hornets had 36 as-
there is a major role for him
on this team and tonight was sists.
“This is pretty much the
a great example.”
most fun I have had in my
Miles Bridges added
career playing basketball,”
19 points and a career-
Oubre said. “We all have the
high nine assists, and P.J.
same goal in mind. We want
Washington had 17 points
each other to eat and succeed
and some big plays down
By STEVE REED
Associated Press
and as long, so as we have
that mindset I think we will
have more and more fun
throughout the year.”
C.J. McCollum had 25
points for Portland, and
Jusuf Nurkic had 13 points
and 14 rebounds. The Blazers
had won two in a row.
Charlotte fi nished 20 of
42 from 3-point range after
entering the game as the
league’s second-best 3-point
shooting team at 40.2%.
“I thought we got caught
up kind of playing their
style,” said Blazers coach
Chauncey Billups. “They
kind of just get up and down
and run and play like you’re
at the park and it’s easy
to get caught up like that
because that’s fun. It’s fun to
play that way. I thought we
got caught up there.”
Ball steps up
Ball broke out of a mini-
slump by making 10 of 20
shots from the fi eld, includ-
ing four 3s. Ball was coming
off a tough two-game
stretch where he was 1 of
10 from 3-point range and
he was held to six points in
a loss Friday night to the
Miami Heat.
Boise State rallies
past Colorado
State, 28-19
FORT COLLINS, Colo.
(AP) — Hank Bachmeier
threw three touchdown pass-
es and Boise State erased a
13-0 fi rst-quarter defi cit to
knock off Colorado State, 28-
19 on Saturday night, Oct. 30.
Cayden Camper sand-
wiched fi eld goals from 22
and 20 yards out around a
30-yard Todd Centeio-to-
Cameron Butler touchdown
pass to stake Colorado State
to the 13-0 lead.
The Broncos got on the
board with 1:50 left in the
fi rst half when Bachmeier
capped a 13-play, 97-yard
drive with a nine-yard touch-
down pass to Octavius Evans,
but the Rams answered with
Camper’s third fi eld goal of
the half from 20-yards out
with 11 seconds left.
Evans cut the Colorado
State lead to three with a
13-yard touchdown run
early in the third quarter.
Bachmeier put Boise State in
front with an 11-yard strike
to Stefan Cobbs and pad-
ded the lead with a 51-yard
bomb to Tyneil Hopper in the
fourth quarter.
Bachmeier was 21 of 32 for
253 yards passing and did not
throw an interception to lead
the Broncos (4-4, 2-2 Moun-
tain West). Khalil Shakir
caught nine passes for 118
yards and Cyrus Habibi-Likio
carried 19 times for 61 yards.
Centeio was 23 of 36 for
276 yards passing without
an interception and carried
10 times for 65 yards. Trey
McBride caught 10 passes for
103 yards and Camper kicked
four fi eld goals for the Rams
(3-5, 2-2), the longest from 28
yards out in the third quarter.
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